Cuffed glove



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cuFFEn GLOVE Filed Feb. 12. 1941 l Manz-agde Patented Oct. 27, 1942 CUFFED GLOVE William O. Wells, Jr., Evanston, Ill., assigner-tov `Wells Lamont Smith Corp., Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Minnesota Application February 12, 1941, Serial No. 378,630

4 Claims.

This invention is directed to gloves of the type provided with cuffs and has particular reference to an improved cuff construction.

It is common practice to provide work gloves, and in some instances other types of gloves, with stiffened cui portions connecting with the hand covering portion at the wrist. Such cus tend to limit flexing of the hand when the glove is worn. According to the present invention an improved form of cuff is provided which is so cut as to facilitate bending of the hand at the wrist. The lower edge of the oui is specially formed to provide an indented portion on the palm side of the glove to facilitate bending of the hand forwardly. A similar opposing indented portion is provided in the lower edge of the cuff at the back side of the glove to facilitate rearward bending of the hand. It is also proposed to provide a third indented portion at the lower edge of the cuff in the side area of the glove below the thumb to facilitate bending of the hand edgewise.

The features of the invention just referred to are carried out by forming the cuff with a sinuous lower edge devoid of sharp corners. The durability and the appearance of the cuff is not in the last impaired.

The shape of the cuir is such that a plurality may be obtained with their lower edgeportions of the desired form by cutting a common blank of material along a single sinuous line. By suitably laying out the cufs on the material blank, the improved cuffs may be obtained with some savings in material over cuffs of conventional design.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front face view of a cuffed glove embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a view of the cuff blank before incorporation in the glove; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of a blank of material illustrating how the cuffs may be laid out for cutting.

The glove illustrated in Fig. 1 has a hand covering portion I9 which may be cut in any of a variety of patterns such as commonly used for work gloves. The glove is provided with a cuff or abbreviated gauntlet II, preferably formed separately from the hand covering portion I of stiffened material and joined to the hand covering portion at the wrist line A-A by stitching I2. According to the invention the lower edge of the cuff is provided at the side thereof below the palm with a relatively wide curved indented line of the glove which will engage the arm when the hand is flexed to permit the wrist to be bent farther forwardly than in cases where the cuff is provided with a straight lower edge as in conventional practice.

A similar indented portion I4 is provided in the lower edge of the cuff at the back side opposite indented portion I3. This functions in a similar manner when the wrist is inclined rearwardly.

To facilitate bending of the glove edgewise, it is preferable also to provide a third indented portion I5 in the side edge portion of the glove below the thumb.

As usual the entire cuff may be formed of a single blank as shown in Fig. 2. It will be observed that the lower edge I5 of the cuff takes the form of a sinuous curve resulting in the three indented portions I3, I4 and I5. dented portions are of similar shape and equally spaced circuinferentially of the cuif II so that the indented portions will occupy the desired positions above explained.

Because of the sinuous uniform shape of the lower edge I6 of the cuff II, the same may be out from a common blank I'I simultaneously with a second cuff I8 of similar form by cutting the lower edges of the respective cuffs along a common sinuous line I9, as shown in Fig. 3.

When the cuff is attached to the glove, the opposite side edge portions I9 and 23 of the cuff may be left free of connection below the wrist line A--A as will be clear from Fig. l. The eX- posed edges of the cuff will ordinarily be bound with an edging strip 2l as conventionally.

It will be understood that while all three of the -indented edge portions I3, I@ and l5 of the cuff are desirable, the curi may be constructed with a lesser number of indentations within the scope of the invention. In any case the indentations may be cut as deep or as shallow as found appropriate. Of course, the deeper the indentations the greater the degree of bending of the wrist permitted. Where the cuff isy rrelatively short as illustrated comparatively shallow indentations are sufficient, but where a longer .culi is employed the indentation should be somewhat deeper in carrying out the purposes of the in- Vention.

I claim:

1. A glove having a cuff, said culi comprising a front portion, a .back portion and a side portion `at the .base of the glove thumb connecting the front and back cuff portions, the bottom edge portion I3 substantially centering on the medial 55 of .the Side cui portion and the bottom edge of at The three inleast one of said other cuff portions each being formed with a Wide indentation whereby increased inclination of the arm of the wearer is permitted relative to the cuir.

A 2. A glove having a cuff comprising front and back portions and a connecting side portion, the bottom edge of the side cuff portion, the front portion and back portion each being formed with a .wide indentation whereby increased inclination of the arm of the wearer is permitted relativeto the cui.

3.. A glove having a cuff comprising front and back portions and a connecting side portion, said Cuff being formed at its bottom edge with a plurality of relatively wide curved indentations one indentation falling at the front of the cuff and another at the back of the cu", whereby increased inclination of the arm of the Iwearer is permitted relative to the cuff.;

4. -A glove comprising a hand covering portion and a short stiff cuff portion attached to the hand covering portion, .the cuff portion being vsubstantially larger in diameter than the arm of a wearer and permitting the arm to take angular positions therein relative to the length of the cui portion, and having a sinuous bottom edge -forming spaced indentations one indentation falling at the front of the cuff and another at the back of the cuff to permit increased inclination of the arm relative to the cuff.

W'ILLIAM O. WELLS, JR. 

